I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false…
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch), translated from German and modified by Anita Barrows and Joanna Marie MacyTPV
“Poets in English continue to line up for the inevitable failure of translating his short lyrics…” -Clive James, about Rilke
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